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A few years back, Gillette released their most current of products, the Mach 3 Razor. The product took seven years to develop. Over 750 million dollars in manufacturing and development costs went into the Mach 3. Gillette expected that after two years the product would sell 1.2 billion Mach 3 blades each year. In order to sustain the rapid profit growth that has made its stock among the fastest climbing blue chips of the decade, the Mach 3 needed to succeed. Therefore the precision and efforts that went into the Mach 3 had to be at a maximum. Gillette knew that the machine that they used for testing would show how well a blade prototype could perform without actually making the product. While the development process for the Mach 3 was underway, Gillette?s Sensor Excel was about to be launched. Gillette never launches a new razor without having its predecessor in the pipeline. Their eng